Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with Twitter
I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account
|
Scooped by
Bill Palladino - MLUI
onto Local Food Systems |
Scoop.it!
Schoolyard Gardens Educate with Fruits and Vegetables
The Charlottesville Newsplex
Clark Elementary has a wildlife garden with plants native to Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
|
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Christopher Leonard, author of the recently released book The Meat Racket, joins the News Hub with an investigative look at how four companies muscled their way to controlling America's meat supply. Photo: Getty.
Where do you get your meat? Well actually, where does your butcher get your meat? That's the question answered by Christopher Leonard. Is there a monopoly of meat producers controlling our meat supply? Um, yup.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Originally published as The Cow Economy in the 1970s, Keeping a Family Cow is the revised and updated Chelsea Green edition of Joann Grohman’s classic homesteader guide to owning a family cow. In this adapted article below, Grohman – who, at 85, still milks her cow daily – walks newcomers through the economics, and the …
I remember seeing this book many years ago in a "hippie" bookstore in Minneapolis. Good to see it being revived.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Organic farmers in California face unique issues in this devastating drought, leading some to bow out … or sell cows fo…
If you're trying to predict the potential effects of the coming drought, look no further.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Like football, pop music, and democracy itself, pizza follows in the long American tradition of things that began overseas before the United States imported, violently altered, and eventually defined the institution.
I grew up in the Bronx. This is something akin to suggesting we breathe air.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
JetBlue and GrowNYC have partnered to bring a farmers market to JFK's Terminal 5 through October 31st. (Yes. Farmer's Markets in airports. At least now the fringe religions won't be the only booth selling flowers.
Look closely here and you'll see a bike-powered smoothie mixer, and a bee hive! Wonder what TSA had to say about all those potential threats!
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
We've talked about why you should have more than one cooking oil in your kitchen, but this graphic breaks down the differences between them nicely. It shows you smoke points for common oils, and their most popular uses, all in one good-looking chart.
This is good.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Cut outs of local GPs used in Morrison's fruit & veg aisles. Genius! Sales up by 20% http://t.co/LGTW8oU8l0
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
A cafe in New Zealand is using a pneumatic tube system to deliver burgers to customers at an astounding speed.
Wondering if I can deposit my paycheck with the same system, after I've eaten a gut-bomb.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
South Brooklyn distilleries produce with local passion
New York Post
Now hopping on the borough's artisanal bandwagon are small-batch distillers, who are producing local whiskey, rum and other spirits all along the East River.
Brooklyn today is the Silicon Valley of foodies. Great stuff happening there on all levels.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Oh, be still my heart! And my palate.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
According to some US health experts, eating too much sugar can be as bad for you as smoking or drinking a lot of alcohol. This video from TED Ed explains just what sugar does to your brain and body—and why it's so addictive.
Sugar, we need it... and it's constantly trying to kill us.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Why one restaurateur bought a farm in rural New York
Upstart
Why one restaurateur bought a farm in rural New York. Enlarge Image ». Roslyn and David Zecchini bought a farm to supplement their supply of fresh produce.
A restauranteur gives back to his customers, and community by purchasing a farm.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Food Tank highlights ten urban agriculture projects in Washington, DC.
Capital City Farming: 10 Urban Agriculture Projects in Washington, DC
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
"A lot goes into this business if it's done right, a lot of psychology. We aren't just throwing up stuff and hoping you'll buy it."
Fantastic article with real insight from a retail buyer on what it takes to get your product noticed and bought in the produce aisle.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
A Review of the Film "Fresh" By Tricia Phelps There are countless documentaries making comments on the current state of our food system. They each differ in varying degrees of tragedy, omission, ho...
We showed this film at our Food and Farm Summit a couple weeks back. Tricia Phelps has a review for you here.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Plus: a recipe for whole-wheat bread that doesn't suck.
As a twice a week sourdough baker, this makes sense to me.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
element Colored chicks at a market in Amman, Jordan (Ali Jarekji/Reuters)In a popular gesture of transparency-in-advertising this week, McDonald's gave the world a walking tour of its McNugget creation process.
You know that plot element in Walking Dead that never comes up? It's the origins of the plague that started it all. Yeah, well I think I just figured it out.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
CLOVIS, CALIF. — Beneath unyielding blue skies on a recent afternoon, Ryan Indart knelt down to examine what was left of one of his sheep pastures.
And this is supposed to be surprising who?
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
January 23rd is National Pie Day, and we at eatdrinkTC can certainly get behind any day dedicated to pie!
Who can resist pie, especially on National Pie Day!? Andy and Laura from EatDrinkTC give us an update for northern Michigan's pie future.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
NPR (blog)
DC Barbecue Joint Serves Food For Soul And Mind
NPR (blog)
Chef Furard Tate is the kind of man who never sits still.
A terrific philosophy of food within the brief piece. "When an adult realizes that a young person took that process and is actually learning how to make everything, it actually means even more, because it reminds us that: My education started at home," he says.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Esther won the hearts of the men who adopted her, and they're sharing her story in hopes of inspiring others to see animals as more than meat.
I used to raise pigs on my farm. They were smart, with real personalities, like dogs. We had to create a separation of roles so that my partner fed and cared for them, while I would step in to dispatch them when the time came. And this was usually when she was out to town. But, never, ever did they step foot in our home.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Recently, the subject of the varying quality of pizza by region has been raised, thanks in part to discussions of Washington, D.C., which has been accused, disparagingly and incorrectly, of being unable "to produce a single decent slice of pizza."...
There are some of us, who cut our pizza teeth in the heart of this belt who would strongly disagree with its breadth. And the truth of the matter resembles more a "pizza thread" connecting a few, select, joints from Staten Island through Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
GMO labeling: Is the fight worth it?
Washington Post
There are a few other things I think we should keep in mind: 1. We already know if we're eating GMOs. Answering one simple question will ... First, the whole foods.
The Washington Post has a great article today on whether to keep pushing the edges of the GMO labeling debate.
A very controversial and hard-hitting piece.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Science only gets clearer: Factory farms are accelerating an antibiotics nightmare. Political ties help it happen.
Another justification for organic farming.
|
|
Scooped by Bill Palladino - MLUI |
Scoop.it!
Trappist monks are known for world-class beers. The first U.S.-made brew goes on sale next week.
"Saints be praised!"
And in Virginia, the school gardens are the classrooms, looking to change lives.